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[Legend of Sun Knight] fic: Grace - Chapter 3: Gradual
Title: Grace - Chapter 3: Gradual
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,303
Summary: When asked what he would sacrifice his life for, Grisia's answer has always been his brothers, the Twelve Holy Knights, and his answer has never changed. Even if he's thrust into the future, into a world where the Twelve Holy Knights no longer exist, his answer won't change. It doesn't matter that his brothers don't remember. Or that some of them aren't even... "brothers" anymore. After all, Grisia would do the same for his sisters too! Time travel / reincarnation / genderbender / harem
Notes: Taking a short break from my Parallels assignment. (Deadline is Aug 1!!) For some reason, I have three different reincarnation fic ideas chasing each other around in my mind... So let me get cracking on the first one. :'D That way, maybe I can write the other two someday... haha... This one is more a timetraveling fic than a reincarnation one, so...
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Blue ribbon in my mouth, I combed my hair, pulling it up into a ponytail. After tying my hair, I fixed my vest and black bow tie in place. I looked at myself in the mirror, turning left and right.
Not bad.
This Grace person really did look 99% like me. In other words, very handsome and dazzling! I'd never worn black all that much, but I guess now I knew what I'd look like if I did. Strawberry called what I currently wore a dress shirt, dress pants, and a vest. Only the dress shirt was white while the rest was black. My current attire wasn't fancy at all, but supposedly, this was what I always wore to work.
I looked out the window at the setting sun. It was just about time for me to head to work. I hurried out without looking at the walls of my current home.
Edaline met me outside of my "apartment" to walk me to work. When I saw her, I gave her a bright smile. We fell into step, walking in companionable silence.
As we walked, I surveyed my surroundings. The buildings were very tall and boxy, while the streets were so smooth that a tomato might roll from one street to the next without stopping if someone were to drop one. Not a single horse was to be seen. Instead, metal contraptions rolled on wheels. When I first saw them the other day, my heart nearly jumped out of my rib cage.
Enchanted puppets?
Enchanted puppets were creatures of metal created by alchemists. Normally, I wouldn't be too worried about them, as I wasn't one of the Twelve Holy Knights for nothing, but the sheer number of enchanted puppets was mind boggling!
On top of that, enchanted puppets thrived on magic as their power source. I'd only be giving them a charge if I attacked with magic! No way did I want to reenact what had happened in the Valley of Trizer! At the time, I had Ice's help, but while Edaline here looked just like Ice, I doubted she had the strength of a Twelve Holy Knight.
I immediately started devising a way for all of the enchanted puppets to collide against each other and burst into flames, Chains of Darkness might work in tripping them, but as I was devising my plan, Edaline continued walking without the least bit of fear.
"Edaline!" I shouted out in alarm. She stepped right up to one of the enchanted puppets and... pried it open. Then, she turned, waiting for me to catch up.
"..." I could only stare wordlessly.
Alright, seems like I'm being too cautious.
If people wanted to pry open enchanted puppets to ride in their stomachs, who was I to stop them?
"Grace," Edaline suddenly said, bringing me back to the present. She glanced up at me. "Have you remembered anything?"
Shaking my head, I apologized. "No, not yet."
That's right. That night at Edaline's home, I lied to both girls, telling them that I had amnesia. It was either that, or telling them that their comrade was now being possessed by the 38th generation Sun Knight. If they didn't think me crazy upon hearing that, then I'd wonder if they were the crazy ones!
Sun, haven't you become more open with us? Don't revert back to the time when you never tell us anything!
My conscience sounded suspiciously like an accusatory Leaf. It was probably because Strawberry kept gazing at me with a worried expression. But what choice did I have? I knew nothing about this world! If I didn't garner the help of these people who cared so much about Grace, I'd have a difficult time even exiting Edaline's home! I didn't even know how her door worked!
And while they looked a lot like my brothers, my first priority was still returning to my world, to my holy knights.
Unfortunately, my "confession" landed me in what the girls called a "hospital." I'd really underestimated them. To think that they would bring me to an expert to test whether or not I was lying!
But I wasn't the Sun Knight for nothing! It's not that I'm boasting, but my acting skills are top notch. Even though the "doctor" claimed there was nothing physically wrong with me, he believed wholeheartedly that I didn't remember a thing. In the end, he recited a bunch of stuff about my symptoms and whatnot while Edaline and Strawberry hung onto his every word. I was nearly a hundred percent sure that he was just making everything up about my nonexistent amnesia and how I could have come by it because he ended his spiel by saying, "Don't worry! His memories will come back! It'll just take time!"
Duh! Anyone could have said that! They could have come to that conclusion themselves!
With the doctor's recommendation, Strawberry and Edaline took me home and filled me in on as much as they could about my life. Grace's life, that was. Grace's age was younger than mine. He was twenty-four, the same age as I had been when the demon king incident had broken out. In school, he studied acting... theater, whatever it was called, while he currently worked as a bartender. Perhaps this Grace person was actually my reincarnation. If I hadn't been the Sun Knight, I would have made a fine actor and an even better winemaker!
I walked around his apartment, trying to familiarize myself with what was to be my home for the time being. I had to learn all I could about this world, gradual progress it may be, in the belief that I would one day be able to find a way home. The apartment was, as expected, completely unfamiliar. On top of that...
Why in the world does Grace have all these paintings of golden-haired, blue-eyed guys on the wall?!
I'd stared in disbelief at the walls. Even I wasn't this narcissistic!
Since I was currently this Grace person, I had to go about his daily life, which was why I was dutifully heading to work. I was thankful to get out of that apartment filled with paintings of golden-haired men. Just thinking about it made me want to shiver!
Once we reached my workplace, a tavern -- no, a bar, Edaline had called it a bar -- Edaline pulled on my hand. Inside my heart, I was a bit at a loss.
Don't tell me this is where I'm supposed to kiss her goodbye?
While Edaline was very cute, especially when she blushed, kissing her would totally feel like kissing Ice, and besides, I wasn't her actual boyfriend!
Just as I was panicking about what to do (A cutie comes up to you and you don't even dare kiss her? Are you a man or not, Grisia?!) Edaline tugged on my hand. She had a conflicted look on her face.
Why are you the one looking conflicted?
I leaned closer, unsure of the expression on her face, but Edaline hastily dropped my hand and stepped backward, which was both relieving and a bit...disappointing. It also made me realize that we hadn't held hands throughout the entire walk, not until we stopped. Wouldn't normal couples hold hands?
"You really don't remember," she said, eyes flicking up to study me through her long eyelashes.
Haven't we already established that?
"I..." she started to say.
But before she could finish, the door to the taver-bar swung open with a bang, and a redhead stomped out. Even though I only caught a glimpse of him, there was no mistaking him for anyone else, and I was once again revising my opinion of just what the heck was going on.
A man who looked like the spitting image of Chikus Blaze... shoved me away from Edaline.
"Grace!" He growled. "I've already warned you not to get close to Edaline!"
Don't tell me that this Blaze look alike is in love with Ice? And is fighting with Grace over her?
I wanted to sob.
Leave me out of it!
to be continued
Bonus pic from Kiyutsuna! :D
Bartender Grisia~~~ (Or well, "Grace" What a cutie~~~)
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Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,303
Summary: When asked what he would sacrifice his life for, Grisia's answer has always been his brothers, the Twelve Holy Knights, and his answer has never changed. Even if he's thrust into the future, into a world where the Twelve Holy Knights no longer exist, his answer won't change. It doesn't matter that his brothers don't remember. Or that some of them aren't even... "brothers" anymore. After all, Grisia would do the same for his sisters too! Time travel / reincarnation / genderbender / harem
Notes: Taking a short break from my Parallels assignment. (Deadline is Aug 1!!) For some reason, I have three different reincarnation fic ideas chasing each other around in my mind... So let me get cracking on the first one. :'D That way, maybe I can write the other two someday... haha... This one is more a timetraveling fic than a reincarnation one, so...
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Chapter 3: Gradual
Blue ribbon in my mouth, I combed my hair, pulling it up into a ponytail. After tying my hair, I fixed my vest and black bow tie in place. I looked at myself in the mirror, turning left and right.
Not bad.
This Grace person really did look 99% like me. In other words, very handsome and dazzling! I'd never worn black all that much, but I guess now I knew what I'd look like if I did. Strawberry called what I currently wore a dress shirt, dress pants, and a vest. Only the dress shirt was white while the rest was black. My current attire wasn't fancy at all, but supposedly, this was what I always wore to work.
I looked out the window at the setting sun. It was just about time for me to head to work. I hurried out without looking at the walls of my current home.
Edaline met me outside of my "apartment" to walk me to work. When I saw her, I gave her a bright smile. We fell into step, walking in companionable silence.
As we walked, I surveyed my surroundings. The buildings were very tall and boxy, while the streets were so smooth that a tomato might roll from one street to the next without stopping if someone were to drop one. Not a single horse was to be seen. Instead, metal contraptions rolled on wheels. When I first saw them the other day, my heart nearly jumped out of my rib cage.
Enchanted puppets?
Enchanted puppets were creatures of metal created by alchemists. Normally, I wouldn't be too worried about them, as I wasn't one of the Twelve Holy Knights for nothing, but the sheer number of enchanted puppets was mind boggling!
On top of that, enchanted puppets thrived on magic as their power source. I'd only be giving them a charge if I attacked with magic! No way did I want to reenact what had happened in the Valley of Trizer! At the time, I had Ice's help, but while Edaline here looked just like Ice, I doubted she had the strength of a Twelve Holy Knight.
I immediately started devising a way for all of the enchanted puppets to collide against each other and burst into flames, Chains of Darkness might work in tripping them, but as I was devising my plan, Edaline continued walking without the least bit of fear.
"Edaline!" I shouted out in alarm. She stepped right up to one of the enchanted puppets and... pried it open. Then, she turned, waiting for me to catch up.
"..." I could only stare wordlessly.
Alright, seems like I'm being too cautious.
If people wanted to pry open enchanted puppets to ride in their stomachs, who was I to stop them?
"Grace," Edaline suddenly said, bringing me back to the present. She glanced up at me. "Have you remembered anything?"
Shaking my head, I apologized. "No, not yet."
That's right. That night at Edaline's home, I lied to both girls, telling them that I had amnesia. It was either that, or telling them that their comrade was now being possessed by the 38th generation Sun Knight. If they didn't think me crazy upon hearing that, then I'd wonder if they were the crazy ones!
Sun, haven't you become more open with us? Don't revert back to the time when you never tell us anything!
My conscience sounded suspiciously like an accusatory Leaf. It was probably because Strawberry kept gazing at me with a worried expression. But what choice did I have? I knew nothing about this world! If I didn't garner the help of these people who cared so much about Grace, I'd have a difficult time even exiting Edaline's home! I didn't even know how her door worked!
And while they looked a lot like my brothers, my first priority was still returning to my world, to my holy knights.
Unfortunately, my "confession" landed me in what the girls called a "hospital." I'd really underestimated them. To think that they would bring me to an expert to test whether or not I was lying!
But I wasn't the Sun Knight for nothing! It's not that I'm boasting, but my acting skills are top notch. Even though the "doctor" claimed there was nothing physically wrong with me, he believed wholeheartedly that I didn't remember a thing. In the end, he recited a bunch of stuff about my symptoms and whatnot while Edaline and Strawberry hung onto his every word. I was nearly a hundred percent sure that he was just making everything up about my nonexistent amnesia and how I could have come by it because he ended his spiel by saying, "Don't worry! His memories will come back! It'll just take time!"
Duh! Anyone could have said that! They could have come to that conclusion themselves!
With the doctor's recommendation, Strawberry and Edaline took me home and filled me in on as much as they could about my life. Grace's life, that was. Grace's age was younger than mine. He was twenty-four, the same age as I had been when the demon king incident had broken out. In school, he studied acting... theater, whatever it was called, while he currently worked as a bartender. Perhaps this Grace person was actually my reincarnation. If I hadn't been the Sun Knight, I would have made a fine actor and an even better winemaker!
I walked around his apartment, trying to familiarize myself with what was to be my home for the time being. I had to learn all I could about this world, gradual progress it may be, in the belief that I would one day be able to find a way home. The apartment was, as expected, completely unfamiliar. On top of that...
Why in the world does Grace have all these paintings of golden-haired, blue-eyed guys on the wall?!
I'd stared in disbelief at the walls. Even I wasn't this narcissistic!
Since I was currently this Grace person, I had to go about his daily life, which was why I was dutifully heading to work. I was thankful to get out of that apartment filled with paintings of golden-haired men. Just thinking about it made me want to shiver!
Once we reached my workplace, a tavern -- no, a bar, Edaline had called it a bar -- Edaline pulled on my hand. Inside my heart, I was a bit at a loss.
Don't tell me this is where I'm supposed to kiss her goodbye?
While Edaline was very cute, especially when she blushed, kissing her would totally feel like kissing Ice, and besides, I wasn't her actual boyfriend!
Just as I was panicking about what to do (A cutie comes up to you and you don't even dare kiss her? Are you a man or not, Grisia?!) Edaline tugged on my hand. She had a conflicted look on her face.
Why are you the one looking conflicted?
I leaned closer, unsure of the expression on her face, but Edaline hastily dropped my hand and stepped backward, which was both relieving and a bit...disappointing. It also made me realize that we hadn't held hands throughout the entire walk, not until we stopped. Wouldn't normal couples hold hands?
"You really don't remember," she said, eyes flicking up to study me through her long eyelashes.
Haven't we already established that?
"I..." she started to say.
But before she could finish, the door to the taver-bar swung open with a bang, and a redhead stomped out. Even though I only caught a glimpse of him, there was no mistaking him for anyone else, and I was once again revising my opinion of just what the heck was going on.
A man who looked like the spitting image of Chikus Blaze... shoved me away from Edaline.
"Grace!" He growled. "I've already warned you not to get close to Edaline!"
Don't tell me that this Blaze look alike is in love with Ice? And is fighting with Grace over her?
I wanted to sob.
Leave me out of it!
to be continued
Bonus pic from Kiyutsuna! :D
Bartender Grisia~~~ (Or well, "Grace" What a cutie~~~)
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I wanted to comment on your previous post too but I didn't know what to say
*jumps over to reread the previous chapter because I forgot where it left off*
*or maybe the entire fic*
Ah, so there was a timejump. No wonder the scene felt disconnected, it's on purpose |DD
Bartender Grisia yehehehehehe |D or... Grace. //took the liberty to look at the pic first this time
Grisia's confusion and worry about modern technology is so cute, aaaah
Re: I wanted to comment on your previous post too but I didn't know what to say
(There's some time traveling going on in this fic, and let me say here that Grisia isn't the only one who has time traveled. I'm afraid the other time traveler might be in a situation that might feel a little embarrassing for you? Just a heads up... /worried. What is this fic even, I have no idea. (Actually, I do... I wanted the Grisia we knew as the main character instead of a reincarnated Grisia... :'D ) Next time, I'm just going to write straight up reincarnation... no time traveling involved. This one is more for Grisia to learn about the future...)
I have in mind another reincarnation scenario that doesn't involve gender changes, but I gotta develop this one more first before I flit off. But the ideas might end up a bit similar... so I have to tread carefully. |D;; (I'm still deciding who will narrate. Probably not Grisia!)
Ahahaha, yeah, there's a time skip! I've learned my lesson with Bittersweet Sweetness... My pacing there was tortoise-paced, 38 chapters and only 3 days passed by. I'm going to try not writing out every single detail in this fic but rather have Grisia just summarize some of the less important happenings. =x I'll see if it works or not...
Bartender Grisia~~~~ (/swoons)
I'd go to that bar. |D;;;;
Re: I wanted to comment on your previous post too but I didn't know what to say
I can just yell at you if I have toI mean, if I read something written by someone I don't know, and it turns out to be something I disapprove of, I end up judging the person badly. If it's by someone whose personality I have a feel for and like, I'll just not take the story all too seriously instead. (Friendship bonus! I'm biased, ahaha~)(...Does that mean Lesus is Lesus stuck in a girl's body--- Well, if I can't take it, I can always just drop it in the end. We'll see! Anyway, it's also different to me if the character is trying to impersonate someone I know, or don't know. Like in the Grisia/Grace case, I only know Grisia, but I never got to know "Grace". Neither does Grisia. So it's more of Grisia trying to fit into a life that's not his own than Grisia trying to be someone else... if that makes any sense..... Also, even if I don't know him, I'm sure Grace's personality is way closer to the way Grisia usually acts than Lesus' personality + mask combo, for example! So I actually really enjoy his experiences as Grace. On the other hand, if my guess is correct- well, I can't guarantee how I'll handle that, ahaha. Might go both ways. But I'm confident in your way of handling your fics and the characters!!)
Let's go together |DD I might have Silvie's drinking capacity, but I'm too stingy to pay for more than 1-2 drinks anyway! =w=b
Re: I wanted to comment on your previous post too but I didn't know what to say
Feel free to chuck the story out the window if it gets frustrating. I'll prepare some tables for you to flip too |D;;;;;And huh, makes sense about how we don't know Grace, and how their personalities are likely very similar (unlike the case with bodyswap between Sun and Judgment), so there's not as much for us to be embarrassed about for Grace and Grisia. (Aren't you lucky, Grisia, that you're stuck as yourself this time!)
Same, same. I'll nurse the heck out of my own drink (Grisia might want to kick me out). :'D But if we chatter away, they can't kick us out!
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(Anonymous) 2014-07-31 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)But OMG, I've been waiting for this forever. XD Eeeeep BLAZE! Is a guy. XD I have a feeling he's Ice's older brother or something, because....I don't know, it sounds pretty protective to me, but not...rival protective? XD
But awwww, Grisia lost his #1 supporter! I wonder if Blaze would be worried after Grisia tells him that he has amnesia.
And pfft, is Lesus a girl too? PFFFT A SLICE OF WEDDING CAKE CAN HAPPEN-//shot
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Haha, it's sure taking me a long time to rotate through my stories. =x But I might give this one some more attention at the moment, since there are some scenes I'm itching to write. (...if only I can find my notebook where I jotted down everyone's names...) I only remember a few of the names, haha....
Everyone's guesses are fun to read. XD Blaze is a guy. *nods* I figured it was time to introduce one of the guys so that we know that not everyone was reincarnated as a girl.
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(Anonymous) 2014-08-01 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)Whut really? So happyyyyy!!~ I really like this story. XD A reincarnation fic would be nice too, this is like, a mixture of it. XD
I'm trying to figure out who's a girl and who's a guy. XD Pfft, if Earth was reincarnated as a girl pfftttt. Wonder how he'll get guys into his room for tea and cookies XD.
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(Anonymous) 2014-08-01 03:55 am (UTC)(link)Anyways, I've been following your LJ for months now since its so rare to know any Yu Wo English speaking fans online. I feel really sad not being able to talk about LSK with anyone. :(
I love your LSK fics btw, your on spot writing style really got me back into reading random fanfics online after stopping for a few years. Bittersweetness certainly hit one of my sub-genre pleasures which is body swap. And now its time travel and possession? xD
Darn, hitting all the right notes there.
Too bad I couldn't go to AX this year, there was so much happening there would have been nice to say hi or whatnot. xD
Anyways just a lurker saying hi x3
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I feel the same, very rare to meet English fans of Yu Wo. Please come chat with me sometime. I love chatting about LSK. :)
Aw, thanks for liking my LSK fics! I have surprisingly been writing LSK fics for the past three~four years and have accumulated quite a number (well, for me, it's quite a number!). I just really love this series and want to explore it as much as I can. It makes me very happy when people are willing to read what I write and chat with me over LSK~~~. Hehe, I love bodyswap! And time travel! I might end up exploring a bunch of tropes with LSK because imagining Grisia and the others in these scenarios is a lot of fun. This time, it's time traveling to the future, but I do hope to write a time loop someday too.
Ooh, I would have loved to say hi in person. :) Do you usually attend AX?
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(Anonymous) 2014-08-01 05:37 am (UTC)(link)I started reading LSK last year after finishing 1/2 Prince (Big SAO/VR sci-fi fan) and just fell in love with it. Grisia's dual personality, scheming awesomeness and true loyalty to the other Holy Knights touched me very much. The fact that its written in the traditional fantasy setting really helped reel me in. The character interactions especially stuck to my mind. They were so heartfelt. x3
I actually went ahead and read most of your other LSK fics (and some other people's on FF.net) and really do appreciate expanding the LSK universe for me. Authors usually make a world and sometimes I feel like "there's more I'm missing" and you helped fill in that for LSK :)
Yeah I do since I started going to UCLA 3 years ago, but I couldn't this year since I'm staying with my grandma in Canada heh. The year they decided to go all out I miss it. xP
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I started with 1/2 Prince as well, though it's because I was looking for genderbenders to read. I couldn't get into LSK at first, but once I actually started reading it, I fell hard, haha. I liked the VR setting of 1/2 Prince, but I love fantasy even more (and knights, and magic, and dragons), which LSK has tons of. On top of that, the bonds and friendship in LSK are just much love. <333
I love fics for that~~~.
Oh, I see! You're very close to the convention center then! Haha, might be a good thing you missed this year's AX. The lines and crowds were crazy. I hope the lines will be better next year, but I doubt the crowds will be any less huge. I heard the SAO panel was very difficult to get into.
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(Anonymous) 2014-08-01 07:28 am (UTC)(link)Genderbenders are fun. Though personally I'm more into the whole "walking in another persons shoes" aspect of the trope. That really is a great read at times. And yeah I love fantasy settings also, so recently I just got into a bunch of LN's and WN's like Mushoku Tensei, and Arifureita. The raft of reincarnation plots translated recently just excites me. I feel kinda sad though since a lot of these novels are in Korean, Japanese and Chinese. I'd never be able to read them without translators. :O And yeah Fics are great. :D
Yeah I do, but I'm in Canada due to my summer plans going down the drain so I'm living the NEET life for the summer. It's not so bad. Lots of time to splurge on reading/playing/watching stuff. I feel it was the mix of things that made this years AX larger than usual (they hit capacity according to a staffer friend) the SAO events, KLK, and concerts. IDK, SAO gets a lot of flack, but it holds a special place in my heart since it got me into reading LN's and back into the whole VRMMO Sci-fi/Fantasy settings again.
Sorry I feel like I'm making TL;DR posts on your fanfic post. Is there a more convenient way to communicate? xP
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Yes, I love the walking in another person's shoes part of the trope a lot! Like with bodyswap. Light novels with fantasy settings sound awesome. I've come across a lot of reincarnation plots in Chinese series and in Chinese fic too. XD My favorite with those is how the characters find each other or piece together mysteries about their pasts~.
I see, I see. So that's why you're in Canada! Yeah, AX hit capacity, so lines were moved and at times con goers weren't allowed into the convention center because there were too many people already. I'm hoping AX will use more of the convention center next year since there still seems to be some empty rooms and halls that aren't being used. That should help with the capacity issue.
I follow just the SAO anime, but it's not my favorite. I know people who love it tons and people who hate it just as much, haha. This show sure stirs strong emotions. I'm enjoying seeing Kirito with long hair. :'D
Here is fine! Comments go off topic all the time, it doesn't really matter, haha. Or you can use the stickied post I have at the top of my journal. Alternatively, you can email me at rykatu [at] yahoo [dot] com.